Lenovo’s Ed Soo Hoo on Asymmetrical Thinking, Innovation, and Leading Through the Gaps

In this episode of The Victory Show, host Rachel League sits down with Ed Soo Hoo—Lenovo Field C-Suite business alliances lead, former teamster, startup operator (seed to IPO to buyout), and UC Berkeley CET industry fellow—to explore what it really means to lead transformation at the intersection of technology, business models, and human behavior. Ed unpacks why he calls himself a connector, catalyst, and storyteller, and how “fortune telling” is really about reading people, shaping behavior, and laying out opportunity landscapes others don’t see. He shares vivid lessons from blue-collar work, startups, enterprise ecosystems, and advisory roles—then translates them into practical frameworks for leaders: asking the right left-brain vs right-brain questions, spotting the tiny “gaps” that cripple performance, balancing effectiveness vs efficiency, and building teams that think “two up, two down, two left, two right.”